The green and gold is on display as the home fans celebrate Australia Day. After wins from Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, Li Na and Caroline Wozniacki on Tuesday, the semi-final line-ups will be completed today
Czech Petra Kvitova, who has upset Sam Stosur and Flavia Pennetta already in her run to the last eight, begins a cloudy day's play on the Rod Laver Arena against Russia's Vera Zvonareva
Second seed Zvonareva settles far quicker and breaks three times on her way to winning the opening set 6-2 in 29 minutes. The 26-year-old is facing her third successive left-handed Czech in Kvitova
Kvitova, who won the Brisbane International in her preparations for the tournament, goes into hiding as she searches for a way back into the match in the second set
Despite a better showing in the second set, the 20-year-old's hopes are crushed by successive breaks over the last three games from Zvonareva as the Wimbledon and US Open runner-up ties up a 6-2 6-4 win
Andy Murray is up against Alexandr Dolgopolov later on the Rod Laver Arena and his mother Judy (left) is at Melbourne Park early to take in the junior match between Britain's George Morgan and Croatia's Mate Delic
Fourth seed Morgan, who picked up the prestigious Orange Bowl title in December, suffers a 7-4 reverse in a second-set tie-break but eventually prevails 6-4 6-7 10-8
Kim Clijsters takes aim on a 15th Grand Slam semi-final as she takes on Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland. The Belgian lost to compatriot Justine Henin in the 2004 final
Radwanska, who suffered a stress fracture to her right foot at the end of 2010, faces an uphill battle after being broken four times on her way to losing the opening set 6-3
Clijsters appears rattled after she lets a lead slip in the second set but breaks back to force a tie-break
Radwanska battles hard but cannot build on an early lead in the tie-break and eventually goes down 6-3 7-6 (7-4) to miss out on becoming the first Pole to reach a Slam semi in the Open era
Rod Laver Arena hosts the third of the men's quarter-finals as British number one and fifth seed Andy Murray takes on Ukraine's Alexandr Dolgopolov
Dolgopolov, appearing in his first ever Grand Slam quarter-final, plays his part in a topsy-turvy opening set that sees four breaks of serve in the first seven games
Murray is unable to find the rhythm of his earlier matches against the unorthodox Dolgopolov but edges the first set with a third break of serve
Murray takes command in the second set and looks well on course for his fifth straight-sets win of the tournament as he goes two sets up
After slipping a break down in the third, Dolgopolov suddenly rediscovers his form and comes storming back to take it in a tie-break
Murray appears to have weathered the storm with a double-break in the fourth set but he then drops serve to put the pressure back on
Murray is a relieved man when he closes out a 7-5 6-3 6-7 (3-7) 6-3 victory after a little over three hours, with Rafael Nadal or David Ferrer waiting in the semis
Dolgopolov departs the Rod Laver Arena having made a huge impact, and knowing he will rise to 34th in the world rankings next week
Top seed Nadal is under pressure from the heavy-hitting Ferrer from the outset and is taken to eight deuces in his first service game before being broken, although he breaks back immediately
But Nadal's dreams of sealing a so-called 'Rafa Slam' start to unravel when he is forced to take a medical time-out after only three games - he returns to the court with his thigh heavily strapped
Seventh seed Ferrer shows little mercy in disposing of his weakened compatriot in straight sets - Nadal, Australian Open champion in 2009, is broken seven times
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